While I'm linking to videos, I'll add this link to an introductory video for the new (2018) book, Show-Me Katy.

I can't recommend it highly enough! It has a ton of pics and info about the MKT running through Missouri.

If you are a Katy Railroad enthusiast (and who isn't?), you need to check out this new (2019) DVD of the Katy running in Missouri.

I'll let the narrator of the video provide more details, but I bought it, watched it, and recommend that you add it to your collection!

Great stuff!

Here, courtesy of Jason, a fine local videographer and train buff, is video of an operating session conducted in February 2019, in conjunction with an N-scale Op Weekend in Kansas City.

This video shows the dispatcher panel using JMRI.

This time in the July/August 2018 issue of Cowcatcher Magazine.

Found in a dead line in southern Kansas


Nabbed off the inter webs. Location unknown.

The Columbia Business Times has an interesting article about the old Stewart Road Bridge, that used to cross the MKT Columbia Branch at Columbia, Missouri. The bridge was built in 1920, and crossed Flat Creek and the MKT Railroad.

Link to article here.

Interesting article about new signs on the Columbia Branch, indicating the locations of flag stops along the nine-mile branch line. The article also has several interesting anecdotes about the branch line.

The flag stops identified include:
- Webster (mile marker 0.5-0.75)
- Brushwood (mm 2.25)
- Limerick (mm 5.75)

Also, the interpretive sign shows the track and industries served by the MKT.

Worth a read. Check it out here.

When I saw this on the MKT Facebook page, I knew I needed to add this to the blog!

This picture shows worker building the tunnel at Rochport. At Rochport, Missouri, a knob of granite extended out to the river, and it was too large to completely remove or daylight, so they blasted a tunnel through it. This is the only tunnel on the entire MKT track.

This photo is interesting to me for several reasons. The lack of trees is fascinating, because that entire area is completed wooded now.




Here is what the west side of the tunnel looks like today:

Here, courtesy of Jason, a fine local videographer and train buff, is video of an operating session conducted in February 2019, in conjunction with an N-scale Op Weekend in Kansas City. The video starts out with portions of my orientation session, then has some great footage of semi-sweet green on the St. Louis Sub.

Well, I'm back after a long pause in blogging.

Those who know me will recall that I was involved in the NMRA National Convention in Kansas City in 2018. Some have said that it was an enjoyable and rewarding experience. I wouldn't go that far. Never again.

Anyway, I'm back and hope to catch you up on the improvements that have been made to the Mighty Katy in the past 6-8 months, including:

- New turnouts at New Franklin Industrial Park
- New sorely needed turnout at West St. Charles
- Additional track at the St. Charles auto rack facility (YAY!)
- New turnouts at BOTH ends of the siding at New Franklin

Special thanks are due to my buddy, Joe, who continues to amaze me with his efforts to remove suck from my layout.

I'll post some photos of the new track later.